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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Romania	Myanmar (Burma)
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,414	45,018
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,262	45,616
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	22,106	46,171
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,931	46,690
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	21,828	47,201
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	21,704	47,699
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	21,571	48,196
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	21,443	48,674
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	21,129	49,151
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	20,779	49,505
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	20,607	49,896
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	20,485	50,285
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	20,385	50,813
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	20,296	51,369
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	20,224	51,878
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	20,151	52,374
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	20,055	52,900
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	19,938	53,416
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,823	53,914
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,713	54,403
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	19,622	54,884
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	19,496	55,355
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	19,351	55,815
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	19,266	56,210

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,